The Monument is a telescope – It was designed by Robert Hooke who fashioned its height to be the distance from its base to the origin of the great fire of London.

The Monument is a telescope – Hooke arranged lenses at the base and summit to create a telescope with which to survey the night sky.

The Monument is a telescope – The Monument is a microscope.

The Monument is a telescope – Hooke, Surveyor of the City of London after the Great Fire, peered and scryed across scales. He put his microscopic attentiveness to the world that tips beyond sight.

The Monument is a telescope – 50x

The Monument is a telescope – He named ‘cells’ so because they appeared to his 17th century mind to be like the small discreet spaces in honey combs.

The Monument is a telescope – Hooke was an architect, an organiser of space across the visible and invisible, he recorded the microscopic in the Micrographia

The Monument is a telescope – She says that if you fuck her family she will come and fuck you. She will discipline and punish you in your own back yard.

The Monument is a telescope – 1,259,712,000 cells in a cubic inch he reckoned.

The Monument is a telescope – I will break your arm and put it on my mantle piece.

The Monument is a telescope – Extended ocular sensing.

The Monument is a telescope – There is an unexploded V2 bomb in Bermondsey.

The Monument is a telescope – Time reveals glass as liquid, in old cathedrals one sees that the bottom of panes of glass are thicker where the glassy matter has gradually flowed downwards over centuries.

The Monument is a telescope – Unhinged.

The Monument is a telescope –Estimates of the viscosity of glass at room temperature run as high as 10 to the power of 20.

The Monument is a telescope – You can convert your smart phone camera into a microscope by positioning a homemade PDMS bubble on it.

The Monument is a telescope – Lead glass bubbles capture air and create tiny lenses, surface tensions trap spheres in glass.

The Monument is a telescope – Hooke with an iPhone 6 and a microscope app.